Dr Mark Fitzgerald

PhD

Mark Fitzgerald completed his PhD on rhythmic structuring in the late works of Alban Berg at Trinity College Dublin in 2004. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth from 2004–2008. He was appointed to his current position in DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in September 2008. Mark was Executive Editor of The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (UCD Press, 2013) for which he also wrote a number of articles. In collaboration with musicians from DIT and organisations such as CMC and RTÉ he has devised and programmed events focusing on Irish composers (Sunlight and Shadow: The Music of Frederick May, 2011; The Music of Raymond Deane, in celebration of his 60th birthday). He has given presentations on his work at conferences in Dublin, Maynooth, Thessaloniki, Braga, Paris, Rome, London, Durham and Bristol and has given guest seminars in University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, Queen’s University Belfast and in Olomouc, Czech Republic. In 2015 he curated the Dublin City Council/CMC Musical Tales concerts. In September 2016 RTÉ performed his reconstruction of Frederick May’s Symphonic Ballad as part of its Composing the Island Festival. He has taken part in numerous radio programmes, most recently as one of the contributors to the Cross Currents series devised by Jonathan Grimes http://www.crosscurrents.ie/ In October 2016 Mark was appointed a Trinity College Long Room Hub Visiting Fellow.

Publications:

‘Growth and Consolidation’ in Michael Dervan (ed.) The Invisible Art: A Century of Music in Ireland (New Island , 2016)

Forthcoming publications include an article on Ferruccio Busoni’s Doktor Faust entitled ‘Faust in the Trenches’ in Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Florian Krobb and Wolfgang Marx (eds) Music in Goethe's Faust: Goethe's Faust in Music. He is also working on two further projects focusing on music in Ireland since 1930 and the music of Ferruccio Busoni.